Hamilton crew excited to get maiden voyage underway

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http://www.navytimes.com/article/20140916/NEWS03/309160071/Hamilton-crew-excited-get-maiden-voyage-underway



The crew of the cutter Hamilton take part in a ceremony on the flight deck at the Ingalls Shipbuilding yard in Pascagoula, Miss., Monday. The Hamilton is the fourth of eight planned ships in the Coast Guard's Legend-class of technologically advanced multi-mission cutters.

Hamilton crew excited to get maiden voyage underway
By Meghann Myers
Sep. 16, 2014 - 05:48PM

The crew of the national security cutter Hamilton stood the ship’s first watch Monday, following a ceremony and celebration for the ship’s delivery to the Coast Guard.

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Meet the $684+ million dollar National Security Cutter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Cutter


The United States Coast Guard's National Security Cutter (NSC), also known as the Legend-class cutter and Maritime Security Cutter, Large, is the largest of several new cutter designs developed as part of the Integrated Deepwater System Program.[4] Eight ships are in the Program of Record. [5]

National Security Cutter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


USCGC Bertholf, the first National Security Cutter
Class overview
Name: Legend-class National Security Cutter
Preceded by: Hamilton-class cutter
Cost: $684m(average), $735m(FY13 ship)[1]
In service: 2008–
Building: 3
Planned: 8[2]
Completed: 3
Active: 3
General characteristics
Displacement: 4,500 long tons (4,600 t)
Length: 418 feet (127 m)
Beam: 54 feet (16 m)
Draft: 22.5 feet (6.9 m)
Propulsion: Combined diesel and gas
2 × 7.400 kW MTU 20V 1163 diesels
1 × 22MW LM2500 gas turbine engine[3]
Speed: Over 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range: 12,000 nautical miles (22,000 km; 14,000 mi)
Complement: 113 (14 Officers + 99 Enlisted)
Sensors and
processing systems: EADS 3D TRS-16 Air Search Radar
SPQ-9B Fire Control Radar
AN/SPS-73 Surface Search Radar
AN/SLQ-32
Electronic warfare
& decoys: AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare System
2 SRBOC/ 2 x NULKA countermeasures chaff/rapid decoy launcher
Armament: 1 x Bofors 57 mm gun and Gunfire Control System
1 x 20 mm Close-In Weapons System
4 x .50 Caliber Machine Guns
2 x M240B 7.62mm Medium Machine Guns
Aircraft carried: 2 x MH-65C Dolphin MCH, or 4 x VUAV or 1 x MH-65C Dolphin MCH and 2 x VUAV
Aviation facilities: 50-by-80-foot (15 m × 24 m) flight deck, hangar for all aircraft
USCG long range interceptor aboard Bertholf
USCG Bertholf during weapons testing
USCGC Waesche in San Francisco Bay